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of the world which are most remote, and which are peopled LlB - IV - 

 with men of lesse civilitie and governement, planting there 

 great store of mines, and in the greatest aboundance that 

 ever were, thereby to invite men to search out those lands, 

 and to possesse them, to the end that by this occasion, they 

 might plant religion and the worship of the true God, 

 amongst those that knew it not, fulfilling therein the 

 prophecie of Isaiah, saying, that the Church should stretch 

 forth her boundes, not onely to the right, but also to the 

 left : which is vnderstood as S. Augustine saieth, that the a 

 Gospell should be spread abroad, not onely by those that 3[ ang&amp;lt;)Cap 

 sincerely, and with a true and perfect charity, preach and 

 declare it, but also by those that publish it, tending to 

 temporall ends ; whereby wee see, that the Indian land, 

 being more aboundant in mines and riches, hath beene in 

 our age best instructed in the Christian religion, the Lord 

 vsing our desires and inclinations to serve his soveraigne 

 intentions. Herevpon a Wise man said, that what a father 

 doth to marie his daughter wel, is to give her a great por 

 tion in manage ; the like hath God done for this land so 

 rough and laboursome, giving it great riches in mines, that 

 by this meanes it might be the more sought after. At the 

 West Indies then there are a great store of mines of all 

 sortes of mettalls, as copper, yron, lead, tinne, quicke-silver, 

 silver and gold : and amongst all the regions and partes of, 

 the Indies, the realmes of Peru abound most in these met- .. 

 tails, especially with gold, silver, quicke-silver, or mercurie, 

 whereof they have found great store, and daily discover new 

 mines. And without doubt, according to the qualitie of 

 the earth, those which are to discover, are without com 

 parison farre more in number then those which are yet 

 discovered : yea, it seemes that all the land is sowed with 

 these mettalls, more then any other in the world that is yet 

 knowne vnto us, or that ancient writers have made men 

 tion of, 



